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San Diego Food - Restaurants, Recipes and Nutrition

Quick breads are the unsung heroes in every baker’s kitchen. The humble loaves are so simple and easy to make, it’s understandable that they might get overlooked in favor of more dazzling baked goods. The term “quick bread” is fairly broad and can encompass everything from pancakes to biscuits, scones, muffins, cornbread and gingerbread — usually any simple, sweet or savory bread leavened with baking powder and/or baking soda instead ...

When food writer and journalist Michael Pollan sits at the zeitgeist table, brains are always on the menu. Or his brain, at any rate. In 2009, Newsweek magazine named him one of the nation’s top 10 “New Thought Leaders.” In 2010, he was included in Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 must influential people. And on Thursday Oct. 9, the author of such best-sellers as “In Defense of Food” and “Cooked” comes to San ...